Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met, on November 11, Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of the Arab-Islamic Summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
The two sides discussed the importance of holding the extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit in the light of the dangerous Israeli escalation in the region and the importance of the implementing the Summit’s outcomes, according to Syria state news agency.
The two sides confirmed the centrality of the Palestinian issue and the danger of expanding the scope of aggression against other countries in the region. They also discussed the bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to enhance them in a way that serves their common interests.
Bashar al-Assad criticized again the Arab countries during his participation in the extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit, which was held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, pointing out that they did not “provide anything regarding the Palestinian issue,” ignoring reports that talk about ongoing security coordination between his regime and Israel.
Al-Assad said in a speech during the summit that “he will not talk about the firm historical rights of the Palestinians, the resilience of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and the duty to support them, nor the legitimacy of resistance in the two countries, and he will not talk about the Nazism of the Zionist occupiers and their artificial entity, nor about the West’s transformation from a supporter to this entity and its crimes since “his to become a direct and declared partner,” as this “will not add anything to what many in the world know.”
Al-Assad added that they met at the last summit, last year, and condemned and denounced the aggression, but the crime continues, adding: “Are we meeting today in order to repeat the late past and its events, or to change the course and horizons of the coming future?”
